scafera/auth

Authentication and access control for the Scafera framework. Provides session management, guards, login/logout, and password hashing — all behind Scafera-owned types.

Internally adopts symfony/http-foundation Session and symfony/password-hasher. Userland code never imports Symfony types — boundary enforcement blocks it at compile time.

Provides: Authentication and access control for Scafera — Authenticator (login/logout), Session (state + flash), Password (hash / verify / needsRehash), #[Protect] attribute with GuardInterface guards, plus CookieJar for secure cookies. User-existence-based authentication per ADR-058.

Depends on: A Scafera host project that implements User and UserProvider (how auth finds an identity). When exactly one UserProvider implementation exists, it is auto-aliased for injection.

Extension points:

• Contracts — User, UserProvider, GuardInterface
• Attribute — #[Protect(guard: ..., options: [...])] on controllers
• Built-in guards — SessionGuard and RoleGuard; implement GuardInterface for custom guards
• Config — scafera_auth.global (guards applied to every request), scafera_auth.exclude (paths bypassing global guards)

Not responsible for: User storage (app implements UserProvider) · password complexity / policy rules · two-factor auth or passkey flows · session storage backend (Symfony's responsibility) · direct use of Symfony\Component\Security, HttpFoundation\Session, PasswordHasher, HttpFoundation\Cookie in userland (blocked by AuthBoundaryPass and AuthBoundaryValidator).

This is a capability package. It adds optional authentication and access control to a Scafera project. It does not define folder structure or architectural rules — those belong to architecture packages.

What it provides

• Session — session state management with flash messages
• CookieJar — secure cookie handling (auto-applied via response listener)
• Authenticator — login, logout, user resolution
• Password — hash, verify, needsRehash
• GuardInterface + #[Protect] — route protection
• SessionGuard and RoleGuard — built-in guards
• User + UserProvider — user identity contracts

Design decisions

• User existence is the source of truth — isAuthenticated() verifies the user still exists in the provider, not just that a session key is present. One cached DB lookup per request (ADR-058).
• Session fixation prevention — session ID is regenerated on both login and logout.
• Explicit guard execution — guards are declared via #[Protect] attributes on controllers, not via implicit firewall rules. Options are passed directly to check() — no magic attributes.

Installation

composer require scafera/auth

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.4
• scafera/kernel

Session

use Scafera\Auth\Session;

$session->set('key', 'value');
$session->get('key');              // 'value'
$session->has('key');              // true
$session->remove('key');
$session->flash('notice', 'Saved!');
$session->getFlash('notice');      // ['Saved!']

Safe in CLI context — returns defaults when no request exists.

Authentication

use Scafera\Auth\Authenticator;
use Scafera\Auth\Password;

// Login
$user = $userProvider->findByIdentifier($email);
if ($user && $password->verify($user->getPassword(), $plainPassword)) {
    $authenticator->login($user);
}

// Check
$authenticator->isAuthenticated();  // true
$authenticator->getUser();          // User instance

// Logout
$authenticator->logout();

// Rehash check (on login)
if ($password->needsRehash($user->getPassword())) {
    // update stored hash
}

User contracts

Implement these in your application:

use Scafera\Auth\User;
use Scafera\Auth\UserProvider;

final class AppUser implements User
{
    public function getIdentifier(): string;
    public function getRoles(): array;
    public function getPassword(): string;
}

final class AppUserProvider implements UserProvider
{
    public function findByIdentifier(string $identifier): ?User;
}

When exactly one UserProvider implementation exists, it is auto-aliased for injection.

Route protection

use Scafera\Auth\Protect;
use Scafera\Auth\SessionGuard;
use Scafera\Auth\RoleGuard;

#[Protect(guard: SessionGuard::class)]
final class EditProfile
{
    // Only authenticated users reach this controller
}

#[Protect(guard: RoleGuard::class, options: ['role' => 'ADMIN'])]
final class AdminDashboard
{
    // Only users with ADMIN role
}

Guards run in declaration order. Return null to allow, or a ResponseInterface to deny. Options from #[Protect] are passed directly to check() — no magic attributes.

Global guards

# config/config.yaml
scafera_auth:
    global:
        - App\Guard\MaintenanceGuard
    exclude:
        - /health
        - /login

Global guards run before route-specific guards. Excluded paths are matched exactly or as prefixes with /.

Boundary enforcement

Blocked	Use instead
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session\*	Scafera\Auth\Session
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie	Scafera\Auth\CookieJar
Symfony\Component\Security\*	Scafera\Auth\Authenticator, GuardInterface
Symfony\Component\PasswordHasher\*	Scafera\Auth\Password

Enforced via compiler pass (build time) and validator (scafera validate). Detects use, new, and extends patterns.

License

MIT